Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later : The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic

by Boles, John B.; Johnson, Bethany L.

• ISBN13: 9780807129050
• ISBN10: 0807129054
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

This thoughtful, sophisticated book pieces together the intricate story of historian C. Vann Woodward's 1951 masterpiece, "Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, " published as Volume IX of LSU Press's venerable series "A History of the South." In thirteen reviews and articles, prominent southern historians of the past fifty years offer close consideration of the creation, reception, and enduring influence of that classic work of history.

This combination of trenchant commentary and recent reflections on Woodward's seminal study along with insight into Woodward as a teacher and scholar in effect traces the creation and development of the modern field of southern history.

Table of Contents

Preface
JOHN B. BOLES	vii
Introduction: C. Vann Woodward and the Reconstruction of the New South
BETHANY L. JOHNSON	1	(20)
Review of Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 [1952]
ALLEN W. MOGER	21	(4)
Origins of the New South in Retrospect [1972]
SHELDON HACKNEY	25	(25)
"Origins of the New South in Retrospect," Thirty Years Later
SHELDON HACKNEY	50	(9)
Right Fork or Left Fork? The Section-Party Alignments of Southern Democrats in Congress, 1873-1897 [1976]
CARL V. HARRIS	59	(37)
Redeemers versus Agrarians?
CARL V. HARRIS	96	(13)
Redeemers Reconsidered: Change and Continuity in the Democratic South, 1870-1900 [1978]
JAMES TICE MOORE	109	(22)
The Historical Context for "Redeemers Reconsidered"
JAMES TICE MOORE	131	(13)
Origin of Origins [1986]
C. VANN WOODWARD	144	(17)
Papers and Commentaries from the 21891 SHA Symposium
"On the Pinnacle in Yankeeland": C. Vann as a [Southern] Renaissance Man
JAMES C. COBS	161	(28)
C. Vann Woodward and the Burden of Southern Populism
ROBERT C. MCMATH JR.	189	(29)
Gender and Origins of the New South
GLENDA E. GILMORE	218	(20)
The Political Economy of the New South: Retrospects and Prospects
HAROLD D. WOODMAN	238	(23)
Origins of the New South and the Negro Question
BARBARA J. FIELDS	261	(17)
Reflections on Woodward's Origins
WILLIAM F. HOLMES	278	(8)
Gender and Vann Woodward
ANNE FIROR SCOTT	286	(8)
C. Vann Woodward and the Confessions of a "Continuitarian"
BERTRAM WYATT-BROWN	294	(13)
Contributors	307